Pain Sends Barbara Bush to Hospital

Wednesday

HOUSTON | Former first lady Barbara Bush was in a Houston hospital Tuesday after complaining of a “little bit of pain.”

Family spokesman Jim McGrath said Mrs. Bush went to Methodist Hospital as a precaution. She had been experiencing some pain this week but McGrath did not know what it was.

McGrath said all the results for tests she had undergone had been negative. He told The Houston Chronicle that Mrs. Bush would be held overnight for observation and was expected to be released Wednesday.

McGrath said former President George H.W. Bush was with her.

Current first lady Laura Bush, Barbara Bush’s daughter-in-law, said Wednesday: “She’s doing great. George and I talked to both President Bush and Barbara Bush last night while they were in the hospital and they were both doing very well then.”

Interviewed on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Laura Bush said the White House doctor had spoken to Barbara Bush’s doctor Wednesday morning and “she’s doing very well.”

Barbara Bush is 83.

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